at home: Digital Docents | The Calm Before the Storm: Spencer Frederick Gore and Walter Sickert
at home: Tours
The Center’s docents are now online! Join us for a series of tours exploring the museum’s collections, architecture, and special exhibitions. Each presentation is thirty minutes, with time reserved for conversation and questions.
About this tour
Susan Dardik, a docent at the Yale Center for British Art, presents a digital tour of the paintings of Spencer Frederick Gore (1878–1914). Known as an innovator who assimilated the techniques and subject matter favored by the likes of Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and progressive artists who preferred a modern, painterly style, Gore depicted colorful scenes of daily life, landscapes, and theatrical performances. Along with artist Walter Sickert, he helped move British art toward modernism as the first president of the influential Camden Town Group. Because Gore died young, from pneumonia, his work came before the start of World War I, after which themes in art would greatly change. Learn about this prolific artist through his art and his friendship with Sickert.